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("N0 Modelj T. D. EISNER. FABRIC HOLDING DEVICE FOR EMBROIIDEEING MACHINES. No. 604,741. Patented May 31,1898.

. k I wrmzssas: j mvamon zgf m WWW 'IIIEODOR D. EISNER, OF VEST NEW YORK, NINV JERSEY, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO FREDERICK BRAUN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FABRIC-HQLDHNG DEVICE FOR EMBRGlDERlNG MAGl-"HNEE.

.QPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 604,741, dated May 31, 1898.

Application filed April 2,1896. Serial no. 586,003. (No model.)

T at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THEODOR D. EISNER, of

.Wcst New York, in the township of Union,

county of Hudson, and State of New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful Imis a specification.

My improvement relates to frames for supporting fabrics to be embroidered in machines .of the kind generally knpwn as Swiss-embroidery machines, wherein there is a multi ple arrangement of needles and concomitants for embroidering-a number of duplicates of the same pattern simultaneously.

My improvement consists in ainovel frame especially adapted for holding a number of comparatively small pieces of fabric upon which the pattern is to be embroidered.

I will describe a frame embodying my improvement, and then point out .the novel fea tures in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front View of a frame embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of I the same. Fig. 3 is bottom view of a portion of the same. Fig. 4 is'a transverse section through one of a pair of holding devices.

I by means of nails or screwspassiug through them into the rails. These trough-like bars are covered with sleeves of flexible material, such as a woven fabric 1), and these sleeves are made so loose that they may be made to extend into the troughs or hollows of the bars.

0' designates a number of tongue-like bars pivoted atone end to the trough-like bars by pivots c, and made of a size rendering them capable of entering the trough like bars.

flhey are covered with sleeves of soft rubber 6% like material 0 so to fit snugly within t 18' trough-like bars. Their frce'ends are socured in place by means of buttons D, which are loosely mounted upon screws in, which are fitted with nuts F, whereby the buttons may be forced down upon the tongue-like bars to press them into the trough-like bars and so cure them.

It will be seen that small pieces of fabric to be embroidered may be secured between adjacent trough-like bars and tongue-like bars. If fabrics of rectangular for1n,such as handkerchiefs, should be secured in this way, the corners may be extended over the rails and fastened to the latter by means of but: tons G, loosely fitted to screws H, which are combined with nuts I for clamping the buttons upon the corners of the fabrics. These buttons, screws, and nuts G H I may be arranged upon the faces of both rails intermediate the trough-like bars and tongue-like bars.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a frame for holding materials to be embroidered, the combination with longitu: dinal rails, of a'numbcr of trough-like bars, a number. of tongue-like bars pivoted to the corresponding end of the trough-like bars,

. screws and capable of being swung over the latter to hold them Within the trough-like bars, and nuts applied to the screws, for forcing the buttons in such direction as to cause the tongue like bars to clamp within the trough-like bars, substantially as specified.

2. In a fabric-holding device for embroidering-machines, the combination with longitudinal rails, of a number of pairs of clampingbars extending between the rails and clamp ing devices upon the rails intermediate the clamping-bars, each comprising a screw, a button fitted loosely upon the screw, and a nut likewisoupon the screw and freely movable longitudinally thereon and adapted to force the button into contact with the rail, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

TIIEODOR D. EISNER.

Witnesses:

DAVID C. SELTMAN, W ALTER A. PAULING. 

